Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the middle of July! I can't believe it! Things have been just rushing by!

• did you see this awesome talk on observability by Tommy Ludwig and Jonatan Ivanov from Spring IO 2024?
• What is a ReadWriteLock?
• Spring for GraphQL 1.2.8 and 1.3.2 is available
• Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0-M1
• Spring AMQP 3.2.0 M1
• Spring Data 2024.0.2 and 2023.1.8 released
• Spring HATEOAS 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 are available
• https://spring.io/blog/2024/07/11/spring-cloud-2023-0-3-aka-leyton-has-been-released
• In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked with the legendary Cora Iberkleid
• Spring Framework 6.1.11 and Spring Framework 6.2.0 M5 are now available
• In last week's Spring Tips video, I looked at Data Oriented Programming in Java